New members are now defaulted to the Newly Registered Users group. While in this group, they cannot send pm's, nor can they reply to post. All they can do is read most of the forums, search, and start a new thread in the Introduce Yourself forum. After having done so, they will be defaulted to the Registed Users group. This is all done automatically by the board software.

There were WAY too many users either ignoring the 'intro before posting' rule in the market, or getting around it by sending pm's to the buyers and sellers. No more of that.